When viewing PDF or DOC in IE6 fullscreen, can't retrieve IE Hidden toolbar

[Ken H]

IE's Fullscreen feature is great. With autohide enable,
toolbars don't take screen space until you need them.

But, if you open a non HTML that uses another program as
an IE plugin, like MS Word, Excel, or Adobe Reader, then
when the IE toolbar auto-hides, it goes into permanent
exile. You have to navigate to an HTML, if there's a
link, or Alt-Tab out of the window, then right click the
taskbar button of the offending window to restore it. Or
else kill it from task manager.

This is a royal nuisance, especially with all the PDF's
around. Apparently a real solution is beyond the
frontiers of computer science.

Does anyone have a trick for dealing with this?

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Alt-Tab out of the window, then right click the

taskbar button of the offending window to restore it.

I think that you are right about having to Restore the window
to see the Toolbar again but there are easier ways to do that.

Alt-Space,R works (with AR6.0)

More generally, my Task bar is still available even in Fullscreen mode.
I can always see at least a thin line of it at the bottom of the screen.
Therefore to access the window icon for the Fullscreen window
in the Taskbar all I have to do is move the tip of my mouse cursor down
to that line and the Taskbar will pop up.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle